I believe there is no way around tactical drills but the level of difficulty has to be appropriate: exclude too easy and too difficult problems. My approach right now is to aim for tactical sets where I am able to solve 75-80%. Once the set is completed it goes into storage to be returned to later in circle2.
Right now, for circle2 i am considering only doing erroneous puzzlez from circle1 to save some time. I may repeat the whole set for circle3.
Not sure, how many circles i will go through. I am considering "retiring" the set once a certain level of performance is achieved (~95%?). Once the circles1+2 are comleted for set1 I will move to set2 where again I can solve 75-80%. I will probably have to oscillate between various software (CT-ART, Chess Blunders, Tactics for Intermediate, etc). I don't expect to be progressing so quickly as to be ready for the next level of CT-ART after solving ~200 puzzles from the previous level. Examples of my search for suitable tactics sets:
Encyclopedia of Chess Blunders, level 1400-1700, 83/553 puzzles tried, 87% success - need to go one level up.
CT-ART, level 1800-2000, 121/221 puzzle tried, 74% success - good for circle1 (maybe will use as set2 in circle1)
Tactics for Intermediates, level 1600-1799 (mates) 41/63 tried, 78% success (will use for circle1 set1)
current 5-min rating on ICC 1411 (still very slow and rusty)
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